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If you want to promote creativity with programming, learn alongside your students Coding is often perceived as formulaic and sometimes boring but this couldn’t be further from the truth: it is in fact an incredibly creative activity. Coding is simply a language that instructs technology on what to do and how to behave. I would say it has become the new pencil and paper – a tool with endless opportunities. It’s what you do with it that matters, and in this digital world, children really can do anything from creating a 2D platform game, to writing a program that solves their maths homework. What a great opportunity then to encourage a creative mindset in children. Here are some ideas for you to use in your classroom. Encourage experimentation and evaluation When encouraging pupils to experiment, resilience is key. Sometimes children will get to a point where they think of something that could be changed near the beginning of the project ...

Kids are usually very excited about shopping, especially when they are buying things to take back to school. You can grab this once in a while opportunity to teach them a few lessons about money before they return to the classroom. As parents, you are not just raising kids; you are raising future adults.  It will come in handy during their university days when they will be on their own There back-to-school money lessons drill is worthwhile because kids care about school shopping and have a vested interest in the outcomes since they are the ones to use the backpacks and wear the clothes they pick. Here are some ideas for schooling your kids about money through shopping: Budgeting A spending plan is fundamental for using money wisely, so the process doesn’t start with a trip to the mall but with a conversation. Be in control of the budgeting because you provide the finances. Set a budget and help them do the comparison-shopping. Needs Vs. Want...

Your school just invested in a new set of Chromebooks or iPads. Now what? In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed  no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning.  And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively. "The problem is that many schools haven’t figured out how to leverage technology to accelerate and enrich learning". For many schools, this isn’t for lack of technology. Most classrooms have access to at least one computer or mobile device, and  77% of school districts have high speed broadband.  The problem is that many schools haven’t figured out how to leverage technology to accelerate and enrich learning. The opportunity In the digital age, students must learn how to apply what they learn to build something new. Our nation’s employers report that  cre...

What Do You Know: Do Our Minds Work Like Computers? When people discuss how the human mind works, they often use computer terminology. In cognitive psychology, we see the terms  working memory  for actively processing information, and  long-term memory  for storing information. Sounds a lot like RAM and hard drive storage.  This way of looking at the human mind perceives human thinking as information processing, much like how computers process information. I was recently asked if this was an accurate way of looking at how we process information. Before I present my reply here, try answering the following question about whether you think our minds are like computers.  QUESTION: Do Our Minds Work Like Computers? Select the  Best  Answer.  A. Yes. That’s why we often use computer analogies to describe how the mind works.  B. Somewhat. We use computer analogies to describe how the mind works, but it doesn’t work ...